Center ‘seeks to create a physical space of … collective resistance,’ description states
TEMPE, Arizona — Arizona State University is hosting a “Queer Visual Resource Center” on campus throughout the summer, featuring sexually explicit artwork, promoting transgenderism, and offering free condoms.
“‘We Are Everywhere: A (Con)Temporary Queer Visual Resource Center’ features contributions from all members of our university community–students, faculty, staff and alumni – whose voices and experiences reflect the diverse spectrum of LGBTQIA+ identities,” the event description states.
“Drawing inspiration from transformative moments of resistance like Stonewall, ACT UP and contemporary movements, this exhibition seeks to create a physical space of acknowledgment, celebration and collective resistance,” it states.
One piece of art on display showed two queer, fully nude figures engaged in a sexual act. The frame is wrapped in unrolled condoms.
Below the framed piece sits a bowl filled with free condoms for students to take. The Fix has blurred parts of the first image below.
Another piece of art on display at the center features a headless torso with prominent surgical scars across the chest, referring to gender-affirming top surgery for a transgender individual. White text around the torso r
eads, “I shouldn’t be fighting a battle TO EXIST.”
One display explains the effects of taking transgender drugs, categorizing effects on different parts of the human body as “Irreversible,” “Variable,” or “Reversible.”
The display states that chest growth is a permanent effect while skin softening/decreased oiliness, thinned/slowed terminal hair growth, and decreased muscle mass/strength are reversible for patients that have undergone hormone therapy.
What’s more, a table in the middle of the center offers students resources such as a book by Hannah Cisneros titled “Awoomon,” which features “Memories, Poems, and Drawings from a Queer Pregnancy.”
In addition, several posters on the wall state “transgender people deserve healthcare, support, justice, safety, and love.”
Students can also pick up pride stickers in different flag patterns, representing pansexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, and genderqueer “identities.” Other stickers read “Trans people belong in Arizona” and “We’re here. We’re queer.”
There were no staff on site while The Fix visited the center. The Fix sent multiple emails to ASU media relations and event coordinator Mikey Estes to ask about their response to criticism that the center presents a biased viewpoint. Neither responded.
ASU philosophy Professor Owen Anderson condemned the resource center in a thread on X.
“Glancing at the kinds of sexual behaviors ASU promotes, you’d start to think they are biased in favor of Alfred Kinsey and John Money. Why is that? I think they might be ‘heterosexual-phobic,'” Anderson wrote.
If ASU is “interested in being inclusive then you would see events advertised about other sexual philosophies as well. But you won’t. All you see is the promotion of Alfred Kinsey and John Money. No counterpoints, no alternative views, no critical thinking,” he wrote.
The professor also wrote that this “alternative view” underpins all of human civilization and the future.
However, ASU will not discuss the moral and health advantages of monogamous heterosexuality. Instead, students are cautioned about the so-called threat of “heteronormativity,” the professor wrote.
He called on the school to “affirm and promote the fundamental truth that all humans have a mom and a dad, have the right to know their mom and dad, and to be raised by their mom and dad.”
“[ASU] can stop promoting the Kinsey sex philosophy and instead teach about ‘safe sex’ meaning the actual harms to health and one’s soul that come from such activities. If ASU really cares about a sustainable future like it advertises then this is the course it must take,” Anderson wrote.
MORE: ASU campus that is 30% male says it will focus on ‘gender equity’ – for women
IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: ‘Queer Visual Resource Center’ at ASU; Gabrielle Temaat
Like The College Fix on Facebook / Follow us on Twitter
Please join the conversation about our stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, MeWe, Rumble, Gab, Minds and Gettr.